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NATIONAL

NSSO sanitation survey: Sikkim is top

The results of the survey carried out last year by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) was
released by Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar .
Following Sikkim come Kerala,
Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and
Meghalaya among the top 10 States.

Sikkim scored
98.2 per cent
on a scale of 100. Kerala scored 96.4
while neighbouring Tamil Nadu notched up
just 39.2.

The NSSO conducted the survey in May-June 2015 covering 73,176 households in 3,788 villages
across the country. The ranking given on the basis of percentage of households
having access to sanitary toilets and using them (either household or community
toilets).

Sikkim has been adjudged the cleanest State while Jharkhand comes last in the list on the
condition of sanitation in rural areas of 26 states. Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s home State, Gujarat is ranked
14th.

Pranab Mukherjee begins two-day visit to
Tamil Nadu

President Pranab Mukherjee will start his two-day visit to
Tamil Nadu on Friday. On the first day,
he will visit the Defence Services Staff
College at Wellington,

On the second day, Mukherjee will review the passing out parade at Officers Training
Academy, Chennai. He will also attend the centenary celebrations of the Karur Vysya Bank

Mehbooba launches ‘CM scooty scheme’ for
girls in J&K

J&K CM
Mehbooba Mufti
on Friday launched ‘CM scooty scheme’
in the state under which 300 girls of
two colleges were distributed scooters.

Eligibility for a
scooter was based on a minimum percentage of 65% and an
annual family income of Rs 4 lakh. This comes after a poster had appeared in
Srinagar that warned girls not to ride two-wheelers.

First
State to Roll Out 'Twitter Seva”: Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh govt has rolled out 122 Twitter handles and service would help the UP police to strengthen its primary
relationship with the citizens. UP DGP
Javeed Ahmad added this service would be integrated with the
"Dial-100" project which is slated to be launched in October.

The idea behind the service was to "provide the UP
police, among other things, strengthening
of its primary relationship with the citizens by providing fast, efficient and
real time response to complaints and SoS's
raised by the 220 plus million population in the state".

Over
15cr LED Distributed Under UJALA

Centre has said, over 15
crore LED bulbs have been distributed under Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs (UJALA). UJALA is the world’s largest LED programme for the residential
sector. The LED bulbs distributed under the UJALA scheme is one third the market price. The scheme
is presently operational in 18 states
& 4 U.T.s. The scheme aims at replacing all the 77 crore inefficient bulbs with LEDs.

The
Centre has announced a financial package for Andhra Pradesh.

It includes full funding of Pollavaram irrigation project, tax concessions and a special
assistance. Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley said, the funding of Pollavaram project would be met by the Centre
from 1st of April 2014, the date
when it was declared as a national project.

Indian Railways have decided to implement Flexi Fare system in Rajdhani, Shatabdi and
Duronto trains. Under the scheme, the base fares will increase by 10% with every ten percent of berth
sold, subject to a prescribed ceiling limit.

Supplementary charges like reservation charges, Superfast
charge, Catering charges and Service tax will be levied separately. There will
be no change in the existing fare for
1AC and Executive class of travel in these trains.

DoT
unveils new norms on SIM upgradation:

The Department of
Telecom (DoT) has come out with new guidelines on SIM upgradation from 2G to 3Gor
4G. It can be done with a clear go-ahead from mobile users and on their
request. The new guidelines have already come into effect.

Now, the subscriber will have to generate a request
customer care or online or point of sale of the company. Once the request is
received, the operator will issue a new SIM card to the subscriber

Gujarat
CM dedicates 2 Mbps connectivity to 6,000 villages:

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani has dedicated 2 Mbps download and 512 kbps upload digital connectivity to 6,000
villages at a ceremony in Gandhinagar.
Now 6,000 villages out of 14,000 are
given 2 Mbps connectivity through BSNL
network.

As these villages are out of the V-SAT platform, the rest of the villages served by V-SAT will
also get faster connectivity. Gujarat Government has set the target to achieve 100 percent village connectivity
through optical fiber network 2nd October next year.

The 28th and the 29th
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit concluded on 8 September 2016 at Vientiane, Laos. The theme for the 2016 summit was Turning
Vision into Reality for a Dynamic ASEAN Community.

H.E. Thongloun
Sisoulith, Prime Minister of the Lao PDR, was the Chairperson of the summit
that was held from 6 September 2016 to 8 September 2016.

The Summit was attended by the leaders of the 10-member
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. They are Indonesia, Malaysia,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Myanmar
and Cambodia.

Dutch assistance to clean the Yamuna

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) and The
Energy Resources Institute (TERI) are teaming up with their peers from the Delft University of Technology, Wageningten
University and the Vrije Unversiteit in the Netherlands to set up a network
of sewage treatment plants that will
clean wastewater in Delhi’s Barapullah
drain, which is reportedly responsible for 30 per cent of the pollution of the
Yamuna.

Funded by Dutch government and industry and India’s
Department of Biotechnology, the Rs. 21
crore project is unique according to those involved as it will use
filtration membranes developed by Indian scientists and employ a new anaerobic
sewage treatment process.

INTERNATIONAL

ASEAN Summit 2016 concludes in Vientiane,
Laos

The 28th and the
29th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit concluded on 8 September 2016 at Vientiane, Laos. The theme for the 2016 summit was Turning
Vision into Reality for a Dynamic ASEAN Community.

H.E. Thongloun
Sisoulith, Prime Minister of the Lao PDR, was the Chairperson of the summit
that was held from 6 September 2016 to 8 September 2016.

The Summit was attended by the leaders of the 10-member
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. They are Indonesia, Malaysia,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Myanmar
and Cambodia.

Wells Fargo fined $190 mn over fake accounts

The US' largest bank
by valuation, Wells Fargo, was ordered to pay $185 million in penalties and $5
million to customers by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on
Thursday. Of this, it has to pay $100
million to CFPB, the largest fine ever levied by the regulator.

Notably, Wells Fargo had been accused of opening over 2
million unauthorized accounts.

BANKING NEWS

RBI
Cancels Reg Certificate of 5 NBFCs

The RBI has cancelled the registration certificates of five non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
while two surrendered their certificate.

The NBFCs which surrendered the certificate are Texas Resources & Vivek Vyapar

State Bank of India Raises Rs.2100 crore

The country’s largest lender SBI has raised Rs 2,100 crore by allotting Basel-III compliant
perpetual bonds to YES Bank.This is part of the bank’s Rs 11,100-crore fund raising plan.

These are additional
tier-I (AT1) non-convertible, perpetual, subordinated, unsecured debt
instruments in the form of debentures. Perpetual bonds carry no maturity date,
so they may be treated as equity, not as debt.

Syndicate Bank Appoints Jayant Purushottam
Gokhale as a Director

Jayant Purushottam
Gokhale has
been appointed director of Syndicate
Bank. The Centre has nominated Gokhale as part-time non-official director under the chartered accountants
category for a period of three years.

His appointment is subject to his resignation from the
board of LIC Nomura Mutual Fund Asset
Management Company, before joining the bank’s board.

'Software Robotics' launched by ICICI Bank

The country’s largest private lender ICICI Bank has
announced the deployment of 'Software
Robotics' in over 200 business
processes across various functions of the bank. This move will enable the
banks employees to focus more on value-added functions. The software robots
will reduce the response time to customers
by up to 60%.

ICICI Bank is an Indian multinational banking and financial
services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, with its
registered office in Vadodara. Chanda
Kochhar is the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of
ICICI Bank.

Trupay Launches UPI Mobile Payment App

Trupay has started offering mobile payment services under
the Unified Payment Interface (UPI). It is among the first private sector
companies in the country, apart from banks, to offer a mobile payment
application based on UPI.

Trupay enables users to send & receive money from their
bank accounts with only a phone number. Currently, customers of 21 banks will
be able to make payments on Trupay.

SBI, Tata Housing Enter into Pact

SBI & Tata Housing have entered into a partnership that
would enable easier financing & purchase of homes. The MoU were signed by Rajnish Kumar, MD (NBG), SBI & Brotin
Banerjee,MD & CEO, Tata
Housing. The MOU is valid for 3 years & the two partners will roll out
multiple offers.

The collaboration will facilitate Indian middle class to be
able to realise the most important goal of owning a house.

Yes Bank Launches its UPI Services

Yes Bank has commenced first
of its kind Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services by partnering with 50 businesses. The UPI framework was
developed by national payments corporation of India (NPCI) with the RBI.

The UPI framework will make transactions instant, secure
and interoperable. The bank aims to replace cash on delivery (CoD) with digital payments for Flipkart, Myntra and Jabong.

BUSINESS NEWS

Ananya Birla launches luxury e-commerce
startup'CuroCarte',

Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, on
Thursday launched 'CuroCarte', a
luxury e-commerce platform which will go live on September 11. CuroCarte will offer products priced at
INR 7,000-12,000 curated from nine countries including Spain, Thailand,
Morocco and France. Birla's first venture was a micro-finance institution
aimed at empowering women in rural areas.

Google invites startups for launchpad program

Google has invited late-stage app startups from India, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico to
apply for the third class of its Launchpad Accelerator program. Under
the program, startups will work closely with Google for six months, including a
two-week all-expense-paid training at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley. Startups can apply for
the program by October 24, 2016.

Banks can accept tax dues in cash under IDS:
RBI

The RBI on Thursday directed banks to accept tax dues in
cash under the domestic black money
declaration scheme which closes on September 30. BANK accept cash,
irrespective of amount... from all declarants... including deposits under the
Scheme," it said.

The government had informed RBI, “banks are hesitant” in allowing large cash deposits under the
Income Declaration Scheme (IDS).

APPOINTMENTS

Om Prakash Kohli sworn in as Madhya Pradesh
Governor

Kohli, who is the
Gujarat Governor, has been given the additional
charge of Madhya Pradesh after Ram
Naresh Yadav's tenure in office got over on 7th sepetmber.

The Union Govt. has chosen a retired IAS officer and former DEITY Secretary J. Satyanarayana as
the Chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAIU).

He succeeds
former Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani
(first Chairman of the UIDAI) and
had stepped down from the post in 2014.

AWARDS

Canara Bank Gets D&B Award

Canara Bank has been conferred with the Dun & Bradstreet Banking Awards 2016.
It has been awarded for being the Best Bank under priority sector lending &
Best Retail Growth performer amongst
public sector banks.

The award was received by Harideesh Kumar B, (ED), Canara Bank, from Vinod Rai, Chairman of Banks
Board Bureau. Canara Bank is an Indian state-owned bank headquartered in Bangalore,

Guinness World Record for Bearded Woman

Harnaam Kaur with
six-inch long facial hair
has become the youngest woman in the
world to have a full beard, according to the Guinness World Records.

She is an Indian-origin
woman in the UK. She has polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal condition
that can result in the growth of excess facial hair. In March 2016 she became
the first female with a beard to walk the runway at London Fashion Week.

Pankaj Recommended for Padma Bhushan

Billiards and Snooker Federation of India (BSFI) has once again recommended
Pankaj Advani for the Padma Bhushan
award.

Advani is a 15-time
world champion in billiards and snooker. He was also recommended for the honour last year before being overlooked
for the award.

The Padma Bhushan is
the third-highest civilian award in India, after the Bharat Ratna and the
Padma Vibhushan.

Pawan Singh Awarded ISSF Medal

Pawan Singh, a former shooting coach of the national shooting team, was awarded by International Shooting Sports Federation
(ISSF) in Delhi.

He was awarded for his exceptional contribution to the
field of shooting. The award comprises a bronze
medal and a certificate. He is the youngest Indian to have been honored by
ISSF after almost 70 years.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Toxic Particles Discovered in Brain

Scientists have for the first time discovered tiny
magnetic particles from air pollution lodged in human brains. Researchers
at Lancaster University found abundant magnetite
nano particles in the brain tissue from 37 individuals aged three to 92-years-old.

Particles smaller than
200nm enter the brain directly through the olfactory nerve after breathing
air pollution through the nose.

Asteroid-Analysing Explorer Launched

The US space agency
NASA has launched a mission to retrieve a rock sample from a 500m-wide asteroid called Bennu.
Scientists hope the material will reveal details about the formation of the
planets.

The probe, dubbed
Osiris-Rex, blasted away from Florida on an Atlas rocket. The Japanese
brought back a tiny amount of dust from asteroid Itokawa in 2010.

North
Korea Claims Success in Nuclear Test

North Korea says it has successfully carried out its fifth nuclear test. The announcement on
state media came hours after a seismic event was detected near its nuclear test
site.

South Korea
believes it is the North’s biggest ever test, raising fears the state has made real nuclear advances.
The latest test, with an estimated yield
of 10 kilotons, is the largest-ever staged by Pyongyang.

LIGO Lab to Come Up In Maharashtra

The Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project that was given
approval by the Union Cabinet may come up in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district. Aundh in Hingoli district is a preferred site for the Ligo project.

It would be third such laboratory in the world, first
outside the United States. The
existing laboratories are located in Hanford, Washington & in Livingston,
Louisiana.

World Bank:
President : Jim Yong Kim
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
World Bank Group:
World Bank Group has five international organizations:
♦ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
♦ International Development Association (IDA)
♦ International Finance Corporation (IFC)
♦ Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
♦ International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)